I just installed Peppermint 4 and not surprisingly I've encountered a problem I've never had before which is I cant connect to a printer because it seems I have no CUPS server,

When I try to connect I get via Menu/System tools/Printing, i get a dialogue box saying "Printing service not available, Start the service on this computer or connect to another server" when I click "connect" another box opens up saying cups server: localhost, when I click on connect again I get an error message saying "There was an error during the CUPS operation: failed to start server"

I've checked CUPS is installed and according to synaptic it is, I also typed localhost:631 in my browser and I just get web page not found.

Any help would be much appreciated

Graeme

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If you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs, then you're not quite grasping the situation

OK, I've just uploaded a fix for this to the peppermint "testing" repo .. you can either wait till tomorrow when it'll be copied across to the "release" repo and you can get it as an update through the software updater .. or install avahi-daemon

Personally I'd wait for the update, as it doesn't require avahi-daemon to be running all the time.